Edinburgh Central (Scottish Parliament constituency)

Edinburgh Central
Constituency
View of Princes Street from Calton Hill
Country	Scotland
City	Edinburgh
Area
• Total	16.2 km2 (6.3 sq mi)
Population
• Total	82,978
• Density	5,100/km2 (13,000/sq mi)

Edinburgh Central
burgh constituency for the Scottish Parliament
Edinburgh Central shown within the Lothian electoral region and the region shown within Scotland
Current constituency
Created	1999
Party	Scottish Conservative Party
MSP	Ruth Davidson MSP
Council area	City of Edinburgh

Edinburgh Central is a constituency of the Scottish Parliament (Holyrood). It elects one Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) by the plurality (first past the post) method of election. Also, it is one of nine constituencies in the Lothian electoral region, which elects seven additional members, in addition to nine constituency MSPs, to produce a form of proportional representation for the region as a whole.

The constituency was created with the name and boundaries of a constituency of the Parliament of the United Kingdom (Westminster). The Westminster constituency was later abolished, in 2005. See Edinburgh Central (UK Parliament constituency).

Since 1999, the constituency MSP has been an ex officio member of the Board of Trustees of the National Library of Scotland. From 1925 until 1999, that role had been taken by the Member of Parliament (MP) for the Westminster constituency.

The constituency was one of the few areas to vote "Yes" in the 2011 UK Alternative Vote referendum held on the same day as the 2011 Scottish Parliament election.